The Detention Center
Men's Central Jail; Twin Towers Correctional Facility; Inmate Reception Center; Century Regional Detention Facility; North County Correctional Facility; Pitchess Detention Center North, South and East
- Operated byLos Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Custody Services Division
- County publishes jail namesYes — all facilities are named and addressed on the Custody Services page
- Men's Central Jail441 Bauchet Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
- Twin Towers Correctional Facility450 Bauchet Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
- Inmate Reception Center450 Bauchet Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
- Century Regional Detention Facility11705 S. Alameda St., Lynwood, CA 90262
- North County Correctional Facility29340 The Old Road, Castaic, CA 91384
- Pitchess Detention CenterNorth, South and East facilities in Castaic
- Also listed as custody locationsLos Angeles General Medical Center (2051 Marengo Street) and station jails countywide
- Rated capacity12,328 beds across 8 facilities
Source: LASD — Custody Services Division · checked 2026-08-23
Transparency rating
7/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✓Deaths in custody
- ✓PREA audits
- ✓Independent inspection
- ✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
- ✗How to post bond — not published
- ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found in a county-published source
- Original costNot found in a county-published source
- Paid for byNot found in a county-published source
- Beds12,328 total BSCC rated capacity across eight Type II facilities: Men's Central Jail 3,509; Twin Towers 2,432; North County Correctional Facility 2,214; Century Regional Detention Facility 1,708; Pitchess East 849; Pitchess North 832; Pitchess South (North Annex) 784; Inmate Reception Center 0
Since then
- Not found in a county-published source
The Sheriff
Sheriff Robert G. Luna
- Title as publishedSheriff
- Also serves asNot the coroner — Los Angeles County has a separate Department of Medical Examiner, described on its own site as 'an independent investigative agency'
- Position34th Sheriff of Los Angeles County; commands the largest sheriff's department in the United States, nearly 18,000 budgeted sworn and professional staff
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department — home page · checked 2026-08-23
The Judges
Largest trial court in the United States. Per the brief, only the Presiding Judge and Assistant Presiding Judge are listed. Tapia and Ocampo were elected in October 2024 for the 2025-26 term; the Judicial Branch biography page for Judge Ocampo gives his term as Assistant Presiding Judge as January 1, 2025 to September 14, 2027. Arraignments and bail are heard in criminal departments across roughly a dozen courthouse districts; the court publishes a judicial directory at http://mycourtservices.lacourt.org:90/lineupreports/judicial%20directory.pdf which could not be retrieved for this record.
Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles — Presiding Judge
- Sergio C. Tapia II
- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-08-23
The County Commissioners
They pay for the jail. The sheriff runs it.
- What they controlThe detention budget, the building itself, and the agreements that let other agencies rent its beds.
- What they don'tDay-to-day operations. The sheriff is separately elected and answers to voters, not to the board.
- The boardBoard of County Commissioners →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- Capacity check rests on the quarterly and year-end Custody Division Population Reports listed at https://lasd.org/transparency/custodyreports/ (most recent located: 2026 Q1, https://lasd.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Transparency_Custody_Division_Population_2026_Q1.pdf).
- Budget check rests on the Sheriff's 5th-Month Budget Status Reports required by the Board of Supervisors; FY 2025-26 at https://lasd.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Transparency_Fiscal_FY_2025-26_5th_Month_BSR.pdf.
- PREA: LASD publishes quarterly PREA reports 2023 through 2025 Q3 plus three 2023 station-jail PREA audit reports (East Los Angeles, Lomita, Lakewood), all linked from https://lasd.org/transparency/custodyreports/.
- Inspections: LASD hosts its own copy of the BSCC 2023-24 comprehensive inspection report for the department, plus Department of Public Health environmental, nutritional and medical/mental health inspection and reinspection reports for MCJ, TTCF, IRC, NCCF, CRDF and the Pitchess facilities.
- Fees: no county-published phone, video visit or commissary rate schedule was located. The sitemap at https://lasd.org/sitemap_index.xml contains no fees, commissary or bail page. The Custody page directs deposits to accesscorrections.com without rates.
- Bond info: no LASD or county page explaining how to post bail was located. Bail amounts appear only inside the Inmate Information Center record for each person.
- Contracts: LASD publishes annual ICE civil detainer statistics (https://lasd.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Transparency_Custody_2026_ICE_July.pdf) but no contract to hold other agencies' prisoners, and no per-diem rate.
- The Custody Settlement Agreements page (https://lasd.org/transparency/custody-agreement-settlement/) covers the ACLU agreement on jail conditions.
- Five-member Board of Supervisors, elected by district. Meets Tuesdays 9:30 a.m., Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration, 500 West Temple Street, Room 381B.
What California law requires
Los Angeles County posts a death-in-custody page.
Posts 7 of 7The page is here. LASD's Transparency section carries 'Inmate In-Custody Deaths — Current' (https://lasd.org/transparency/icd/) and 'Previous Years' (https://lasd.org/transparency/icd-previous/). The page cites Assembly Bill 2761 effective January 1, 2023 but does not cite Penal Code 10008 by number. The table gives facility of onset and of death (MCJ, TTCF, NCCF and others), the location inside the facility (for example '2300 - Cell', 'ICU - Intensive Care Unit'), race, gender, age, date of death, custodial status recorded as Pre-Sentenced / Sentenced / Partially Sentenced, and manner and means (Natural, Suicide, Accident, or Pending). The most recent entry is 2026-025, 8/12/2026, 59-year-old Black male, sentenced, manner and means pending final autopsy.
- ✓The agency with custodial responsibility
- ✓The county where the death occurred
- ✓The facility — and where inside it
- ✓Race, gender and age
- ✓The date of death
- ✓Custodial status — awaiting arraignment, awaiting trial, or incarcerated
- ✓Manner and means of death
California Penal Code § 10008, enacted by AB 2761 and in force since January 2023, requires the agency with custodial responsibility to post these seven items on its own website within ten days of a death in custody, and to update them within thirty days if the facts change. California is the only state in the country with this duty. Checked 2026-08-23. This records what is published, nothing more.
The record
354 people have died in the Los Angeles County jail since 2016.
Deaths: Texas Justice Initiative, the cleaned copy of the Texas Attorney General’s custodial death reports — the state’s own public index carries no cause of death and has not been refreshed since August 2025. Population: Texas Commission on Jail Standards monthly report. Counted, not estimated.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Los Angeles County and what it costs the people who live here. Nationally, almost 77% of the people who died in local jails in 2019 had not been convicted of anything, and suicide was the leading single cause of those deaths (Bureau of Justice Statistics, Mortality in Local Jails, 2000–2019).
How much is your sheriff — and your judge — costing you?
Your VOTE is POWERFUL.
The sheriff who runs this jail is elected. So are the commissioners who pay for it.
- Find your polling place and check your registration →
- Your county elections office →
- Register to vote in California →
The county elections office runs the polling place in Los Angeles County and prints the ballot the sheriff’s name is on. Links from the California Secretary of State and vote.gov.
Names verified 2026-08-23 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered